Hey, 2020 listeners, this is Dick Lair, host of ABC's new podcast Truth In Lies, The Boston

Strangler, and this week we're bringing you the first episode of our new three-part series

about the case.

If you like this first episode, you can find the rest of the series in more Truth In Lies

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A word of warning, there are descriptions of violence in this episode that some listeners

may find disturbing.

On June 14, 1962, Anna Slessers was having a quiet Thursday at her apartment in Boston.

She'd emigrated from Latvia more than a decade prior and was living alone following a divorce.

Anna was in her mid-50s and worked as a seamstress.

And as this was slow that week, so she was reportedly sent home the day before and was

told not to return until Monday.

Anna was expecting her son, Yuris, to pick her up that evening.

They were going to attend a memorial service.

In Latvia, June 14, is a national day of commemoration, honoring those who were exiled from

the region during World War II.

Newspaper accounts of that night, said that after eating dinner, Anna put on an operant

record.

She undressed, changed into a robe, and began running a bath.

Then, she heard someone at the door.

It wasn't her son arriving early to take her to the service.

It wasn't a neighbor complaining about the music.

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